qui dort dîne
\ki dɔʁ din\
The verdict
“qui dort dîne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dormir permet d’oublier sa faim.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | qui dort dîne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \ki dɔʁ din\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “qui dort dîne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for qui dort dîne is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ki dɔʁ din\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for qui dort dîne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is qui dort dîne, spelled Q-U-I- -D-O-R-T- -D-Î-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dormir permet d’oublier sa faim.
- 2Le sommeil tient lieu de nourriture.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “qui dort dîne”
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- The one correct French spelling is Q-U-I- -D-O-R-T- -D-Î-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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